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[3] Alternative preliminary design and unfinished working drawing for a tripod fire screen pole, c1778, executed status unknown
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Reference number
SM Adam volume 25/216
Purpose
[3] Alternative preliminary design and unfinished working drawing for a tripod fire screen pole, c1778, executed status unknown
Aspect
Rough elevation of a tripod base, with paw(?) feet, surmounted by a band of fluting and ram masks, with an apron of festoons, and surmounted by a turned shaft, and a full sized elevation of a tripod base with paw feet, and volute legs ornamented with acanthus leaves and rosettes, supporting a turned shaft, with an acorn apron, and ornamented with gadrooning, acanthus leaves, and bands of spiral fluting
Scale
not to scale, and full size
Inscribed
Lady Mills fire screen and some measurements given
Signed and dated
- 1778
datable to 1778
Medium and dimensions
Pencil on laid paper (490 x 556)
Hand
Robert Adam and an Adam office hand, possibly Joseph Bonomi
Literature
Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 56
Harris, 1963, Index p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Harris, 1963, Index p. 59
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
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